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This and That, Game 2 of ALDS

Edgar Renteria has hit a first-inning double in each of the first two games of the series . . . Johnny Damon has proved in his career that hitting when he is behind in the count is no big deal. He had a pair of 0-and-2 hits in each of his first two at-bats, squirting a grounder past third baseman Joe Crede in the first and lining a single to left in the third . . . Manny Ramirez still seemed to be in a hurry at the plate. In Game 1, Ramirez made outs on the first pitch (two grounders to third) twice and saw only eight pitches in four at-bats, going 0 for 4. Wednesday night, Ramirez crushed a first-pitch two-run double in the first and then, after being intentionally walked in the third, he grounded out to third on the first pitch he saw in the fifth . . . Tony Graffanino made only three errors in 51 games for the Red Sox after being obtained from Kansas City, and two of those came in one game. He hadn't made an error in 18 games before allowing Jose Uribe's slow potential double-grounder up the middle to roll between his legs, fueling a White Sox rally in the fifth that netted Chicago five runs and a 5-4 lead . . .

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